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Alcohol addiction: evaluation of alcohol abstinence after a year of psycho‐medical‐social treatment
Author(s) -
GIUFFREDI C,
GENNARO C,
MONTANARI A,
BARILLI A,
VESCOVI PP
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
addiction biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.445
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1369-1600
pISSN - 1355-6215
DOI - 10.1080/1355621031000117455
Subject(s) - abstinence , attendance , alcohol addiction , alcoholics anonymous , addiction , psychiatry , clinical psychology , alcohol , psychology , alcohol dependence , treatment and control groups , relapse prevention , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , economics , economic growth
The aim of this study was to evaluate alcohol abstinence in alcoholics and their family relationships after a year of treatment. The 100 alcoholics recruited were divided into two groups: ALC, where treatment consisted of clinical control and meetings of with the family consulting together with their relatives at the Centre for Study and Treatment of Alcoholism and CAT, where treatment consisted of clinical control and weekly attendance together with their relatives at Alcoholics‐in‐Treatment‐Clubs (CAT). The clinical condition of the sample was assessed by laboratory data. The subjects were given an MQ‐Quant questionnaire, based on an artificial neural network (ANN) model, which analyses the communicative fatigue of their interactions. The same examination was applied after 1 year excluding patients relapsed and their relatives. Psycho‐medical‐social treatment by the attendance of alcoholics and their families into a Multifamily Community induces alcohol abstinence of about 79%. This percentage is greater than psycho‐medical treatment carried out in the Centre of Alcoholism for ALC group (50%). We observed a significant difference between the communicative fatigue of the ALC group compared to the CAT group.